Barret, John (1631–1713), Presbyterian minister and religious writer, was admitted to Clare College, Cambridge, on 20 June 1646 and graduated BA in 1650. He was ordained at Wymeswold, Leicestershire, by the Wirksworth classis on 19 October 1652. Admitted as rector of St Peter's Church, Nottingham...
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Barret, John (1631–1713), Presbyterian minister and religious writer
Kenneth G. C. Newport
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Flavell [Flavel], John (bap. 1630, d. 1691), Presbyterian minister and religious writer
James William Kelly
Flavell [Flavel], John (bap. 1630, d. 1691), Presbyterian minister and religious writer, was born at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, where he was baptized on 26 September 1630, the elder son of Richard Flavell (d. 1665), clergyman. His brother Phineas was sometime chaplain in the family of ...
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Flavell, John (bap. 1630, d. 1691)
Maker: Michael Vandergucht
John Flavell (bap. 1630, d. 1691), by Michael Vandergucht, late 17th century
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Geikie, John Cunningham (1824–1906), religious writer
W. F. Gray
revised by Anne Pimlott Baker
Geikie, John Cunningham (1824–1906), religious writer, was born on 26 October 1824 in Edinburgh, the second son of Archibald Geikie, Presbyterian minister in Toronto, Canada, and at Canaan, Connecticut, USA. Geikie received his early education in Edinburgh, and then studied divinity for four years at ...